Saboth wrote on Nov 12, 2016, 19:51:He ran on the premise he was a Washington outsider, and once in office, he was going to clean up Washington, "drain the swamp",

Yeah... it has been really sad watching Trumpsters try and perform mental gymnastics to explain away the imminent appointment of sleazy Washington insiders, climate deniers, and evangelical Christians. Yeah, a lot of Trump supporters don't have a problem with that, but you had a lot of people outside of the traditional Republican base voting for him as well.

Cautiously optimistic on this one still. Protagonist is less of an Autistic Batman ripoff, city seems more alive. Has actual co-op. Etc. Lots of good incremental improvements. It remains to be seen if it adds up to a much more enjoyable game.

Not for the millions of low income Americans who will lose coverage, or people getting denied for pre-existing conditions. What would you say to those people? What would your boy Trump do for them in lieu of Obamacare?

Wallshadows wrote on Nov 9, 2016, 19:25:Pence sure seems like a piece of work though. He'll likely be the one doing most of the work from behind the scenes and that's a hell of a lot more terrifying since it seems he has much more support from fellow Republicans.

I feel as though Trump doesn't believe most of what he says and instead just said it because "oh he says it like it is!" but Pence is a genuine nutbar.

Pence is pretty scary. Like "throw out the constitution and implement evangelical Christianity as state religion" level of scary.

Hence why I am ashamed. Some dictator didn't force his way into power. There wasn't some coup.

This rancid cheetoh won fair and square because the majority of Americans are selfish, racist, and generally just bad human beings who are great at making self-defeating decisions. Net neutrality is dead. Roe v Wade is dead. Any hopes for real steps towards universal healthcare are dead. The war on drugs is alive and well.

And the most serious issue of our time, climate change, well, Trump doesn't believe it exists.

Prez wrote on Nov 5, 2016, 21:56:Also, I would think that if jobs were so hard to come by isn't it likely a union member would cross the picket line to take a job if offered?

The difference here is that these aren't like, striking automotive workers. Those guys have literally only one industry they can work in. These guys can refuse to work for the games industry and still make a living in their chosen profession, though with a few less job opportunities.

Radio ads, television ads, cartoons, movies, etc. And hey, all those industries already provide secondary compensation in the forms of residuals or bonuses which the gaming industry refuses to do. That's why these pickets and stuff aren't really aggressively scheduled: these folks are still working. What leverage do you really have over striking employees if they've all got money coming in and can simply work in another industry.

I think that's ultimately the strongest case they can make. They can, and would survive without the games industry. So either the games industry decides they no longer want quality voice acting, or they come to the negotiating table.

jdreyer wrote on Nov 5, 2016, 23:13:Major actors have professional agents negotiating for them.

Also, with this statement, you can turn in your Socialist card.

Cutter flip-flops between being a Socialist and some die-hard Anarchocapitalist every week. I really don't understand.

Finland Simulator videos are some of the best shit Robbaz has done in a long time. Very funny, especially if you know some Finns!

I've been a fan of Robbaz since the Unarmed Badass Skyrim video, he's toned it down a lot since then, but I think he's even funnier now. Probably because I'm older and didn't really like a lot of his kind of edgy badass stuff he would do. Now he's just some ridiculous Swede who plays the most absurd games most of the time.

He also doesn't overload me with 5 videos a day, doesn't do any sponsored shit, and doesn't panhandle on Patreon.

That's really the unfortunate thing about Linux. The number of games you have to give up is really just a dealbreaker unless you're some kind of die-hard Linux fan on the level of Richard Stallman, and enjoy eating things off the bottom of your feet. And not only upcoming/new games do you have to give up, but so many in your existing library.

In order to be competitive as a gaming platform you need to have a huge number of the games available on other platforms, like 80% overall and 90% of major titles, IN ADDITION to your own top tier exclusives to tip the scales if someone is on the fence. You also need to release around the same time. Nintendo gets around this a bit with their first party titles, but virtually no one else is in a position to do that.

Linux does not do this. Not even close. Linux has a number of advantages over Windows, but very few of them apply to the average PC gamer. A lot of what you see Linux gaming proponents preaching about are "what-if" doomsday scenarios about what happens when Microsoft decides to stop you from playing any games on your PC.

Microsoft locking down Windows and turning into Apple is something people have been predicting is "just around the corner" for over 15 years now, much like the year of Linux gaming, which has been perpetually just around the corner since the late 90s.